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Billy glanced nonchalantly at her.
-Don't you think. Aunt Minerva," ha
made ?oswer, "1 ? glttln' too big to go
tbout uny aboea? I '? moo' ready to
pot on long pants, an' how'd I look,
rd ftm like to know, goln* round' bare?
footed an' got on long breeches. I
4oo' boh eve I II go barefooted no mo*
?TO Jest wear my shoes ev'y day."
"1 Just believe you won't. Go take
there oi at once and hurry back to
?*OOr dinner "
"lomme Jest wait tell I oats," bo
begged, do* .v to postpone the evil
boor of ixpoeure.
"No. oi st once, and bo sure and
waah 70% c bands."
Miss Minerva spied the paint the In?
stant he made his seconl entranco
' Immediately Inquired, "How did
. get that paint on your feet?"
he little boy took bis neat at tho
le and looked up at her with his
sweat, attractive, winning smile.
Paint pertec's little boys'feets," ho
said, "an* keepa Vtn Tom glttln' hurt
Aant Minerva, don't It?"
dies Minerva laid down her fork
an ort Qer nephew her undivided
cation.
Ton nave been getting Into mischief
- tin. I see, WflMam: now roll me all
ot It Are you afraid of me?"
Tad *m." was bis prompt response,
'an' 1 don't want to be put to bed
th?r. The major be would n't put
little boys ?o bed day times."
She bra*.bed and eyed him thought*
fully. She was making slow progress
with tho child, she know, yet she stlU
fort it her stern duty to bo vary strict
wtta kiss and; having laid down cor*
tat? rides to rear him by, she wished
to Ibere to them.
"Wintern." she said after bo had
mads a fall confession, "I wont pun*
/ s you this time for I know that Jim
say led you Into It but?"
"Navm. Jimmy did At Me an'
aim an' Frances an' Una's sll 'spons
talu, but I promise you. Aunt Minerva,
oot to clam' no mo' Udders."
CHAPTER XXI.
Pretending Reality.
Toe chain-gang had boon working
ig too struct not far from Miss Ml
nerve's bouse, snd lias, Prances, B'Jly
sued Jimmy bad hung on her fvont
fsoss for so hour, watching them with
eager interest. The negroes were
eoalasd together la pairs, and guard
od by two. big. burly white men.
"Let's us play chain-gang," suggest?
ed Jimmy.
"Where wo goln' to git a chain?"
-queried Billy; "*1 root be no fun
tbout a lock an' - vn."
"1 can get th? lo< rd chain off *BJ
Sarah Jsne's cabin
"To' mam. >w rou to go to
bor cabin.
y mama don't car* If I just borm j
n lock and chain; so I'm going to got
If I
1 m going to bo ths porlico of the 1
ajenf." said Frances.
"Psrlice nothing. Ton ail time talk?
ing tiout you going to ho a perllce,"
scoffed Jimmy. "1 m going to bo *ho
lice myself "
"No, you a?e not." lnterpoeed Una,
'-Billy and 1 are the tallest and
ore are going to bo the guards, and
you and Frances must be the prison
far lice
aS
"Wen. I ain't going to play thou: I
gt* b? the boss of the niggers. It 's
Sarah Jano'a chain and ehe 'a my
mams ? cook, and I'm going to be what
I please."
"I 11 tell you what do." waa Billy's
euggeetioa. "we'll take It turn about;
see sa Lina II drat bo the perllce an'
y* all bo the chain sang, an' then we
II be the niggers an' y* all be the
This arrangement waa satisfactory,
?o the younger boy climbed the fence
and soon returned with a short chain
and padlock.
Billy chained Jimmy and Frances to?
gether by two round, fat anklea and !
om? ?*? *-%y to the lock In hla pocket 1
"We meet decide what crimes they
bar*' d mh .od," said Una.
0 dors got 'rested fer shoot
on' Jimmy done got 'rested
fer '? In' public worship." aald the
other -osa,
ain't neither," objected the
nber of the chain gang, "I
my woman with a raaor
cease 1 too her racking down the
1 a proud c>on with another
gen* what Sarah Jane's brother
t ten* ' ho done at the picnic."
dren plryed happily together
half ~a hour, Hilly and Lina com
UKii-q--g and the prisoners, entering
thoroughly Into the spirit of the game,
according prompt obedience to their
bosses At slot the captive* wearied]
kof their role and clamored for an ex
of narts
Job work.
"All right," agreed Lina "Get the
key, Billy, and we 'U be the chain
gang."
Billy put hla right hand In his pocket
but found no key there; he tried the
other pocket with the same success;
he felt In hla blouse, he looked in bis
cap, be jumped up and down, he near?
ly shook himself to pieces all without
avail: the key had dlaappeared aa if
by magic.
"I be rile vo y' all done loa' that
key." concluded he.
"Maybe It dropped on the ground," I
said France?.
They searched the yard over, but
the key was not to be found.
"Well, If that ain't just like you,
Billy," cried Jimmy, "you all time per
poaing to play chain-gang and you all
time loae the key."
Lina grew indignant.
"You proposed this yourself, Jimmy
Garner," she said; "we never wouM
bave thought of playing chain-gang
but for you."
"It looks like we can't never do any?
thing at all," moaned Frances,
"'thout grown folks 've got to know
?bout it."
"Yes. and laugh fit to pop thelraelfs
open," said her fellow-prisoner. "I
can't never pass by Owen Glbba and
Len Hamner now 'thout they laugh
juat like idjeta and grin just like pole?
cats."
"I ain't never hear tell of a pole-cat
grinnin'," corrected Billy, "he jea smell
woraer 'n what a billy goat do."
"It la Cheesy cats that grin," ex?
plained Lina.
"Look like folks would get 'em a lot
of pole-cats stead o' cnuiena always
hau to be wearing assfetty bags 'round
their nakes, so 's they can keep off
whooping cough," said Frances.
"Too can't wear a pole-cat roun' yo'
oake," grinned Billy.
"And Len Hamner all time now ask?
ing me," Jimmy continued, "when I'm
going to wear Sarah Jane's co'set to
Sunday school. Grown folks 'bout the
Iunatickest things they la. Ain't you
going to unlock th'.a chain, Billy?" he
demanded.
"What I got to unlock It with?"
aaked Billy.
Aa Jimmy's father was taking the
crestfallen chain-gang to the black?
smith shop to have their fettere re?
moved, they had to paaa by the livery
stable; and Sam Lamb, bent double
with Intoxicating mirth at their predic?
ament, yelled:
"Lordee! Lordee! Y' all sho' is de
outlandiaheat klda 'twlxt de Bad Place
an' de moon."
CHAPTER XXII.
A Transaction in Mumps.
"Don t come near me." screamed
Billy, sauntering slowly and deliberate?
ly toward like dividing fence; "keep
***ay fdjUl they's kttcbin'."
Jimmy wss sitting on hi * front steps
and the proverbial red flag could not
have excited a bull to quicker action.
He hopped down the step*} and ran
across bis own yard toward Hilly us
fast as his short, fat legs could carry
him.
"Oit 'way f'om me; you V ketch '3m
if you teches me," warned Billy; "in'
you too little to have em," and he
wnved an authoritative hand at the
other chili. But Jimmy's curiosity was
aroused tp the highest pitch. He
promptly [jumped the fence and gazed
at bis chum with critical admiration.
What'! the matter," he inquired,
"y >u got the toothache?"
"Toothache!" waa the scornful ecbo,
"well, I reckon not. Oit tack; don't
you tech 'em; you ain't or 'nough to
bare 'em."
Billy's head was swathed in a huge,
white cloth; his usually lean little
cheeks were puffed out till he reseci
bled a young hlppopotamuu, and his
pretty gray eyes were almost invisible.
"You better git 'way f'om me an'
don't tech 'em, like I tells you," he re?
iterated. "Aunt Minerva say you ain't
never bad 'em an' she say fer me to
make you keep 'way f'om roe 'cause
you ain't a ol' chile like what I is."
"You ain't but six," retorted ang" y
Jimmy, "and I'll be s'i next mor.h;
you all time trying to 'auade lltle boys
to think you're 'bout a million years
old. You 'bout the funniest looking
kid they is."
Billy theatrically touched a distend?
ed cheek. "These here is mumps," ho
said Impressively; "an' when you got
'em you can make growu folks do per
sactly what you want 'em to. Aunt
Minerva 's In tho kitchen right now
makln' mo 'lasses cuatard If I'll be
good an' stay right In the house an'
don't come out here in the yard an'
don't give you tho mumps. Course 1
can't toco that custard now 'cause I
done come out here an' it ain't hotior
ble. but she's makln' It Jes' the same.
You better glt 'way f'om me an' not
>uid ms your Jo^; Wi.?ric
"Are they easy to ketch?" asked the
other little boy eagerly; "leinme Jest
tech 'em one time, Billy."
"Git 'way, I tell you," warned the
latter with a superior air. To increase
Jimmy's envy he continued: "Grown
folks tries to see how nice they can be
to chillens what's got tho mumps. Aunt
Minerva ain't been lmpedent to me to?
day; she leinme do jest 'bout like 1
please; it sho' is one time you can
make grown folks step lively." He
looked at Jimmy meditatively. "It sho'
is a plumb pity you ain't a ol' chile
like what I is an* can't have the
mumps. Don't you come anp closter to
me," he again warned, "you too little
to have 'em."
TU give you five pewees if you'll
lemme tech 'em so's I can get 'em,"
pleaded the younger boy.
Billy her: ated. "You mighty lit;
tig?" he began.
"And my stoney," said the other '
child eagerly.
"If you was a oT boy," said Billy,
"it wouldn't make no dlffunce; I don't
want to make yo' ma mad an' Aunt
Minerva say for me to keep 'way f'om
you any how, though I didn't make her
no promises."
Jimmy grew angry.
"You're the stingiest Peter they is,
William Hill," he cried; "won't let no?
body tecb your old mups. My cousin
in Memphis 's got the measles; you
Just wait till I git 'em."
Billy eyed him critically.
"H you was ol?" he was beginning.
Jimmy thought he saw signs of his
yielding.
"And I'll give you my china egg,
too," he quickly proposed.
"Well, Jest one tecb." agreed Billy;
"an* I ain't a-goln' to be 'sponsible
neither," and he poked out a swollen
jaw for Jimmy to touch.
Ikey Rosensteln at this moment was
spied by the two little TJoys as He was
walking jauntily by the gate.
"You better keep 'way f'om hero,
Goose-Grease," Jimmy yelled at him;
"you better get on tho other side the
street. Billy here 's got the mumps
an' he lemme tech 'em so's I can get
'em, so's my papa and mama '11 lemme
do just perzactly like I want to; but
you're a Jew and Jews ain't got no
business to have the mumps, so you
better get 'way. I paid Billy 'bout a
million dollars' worth to lemme tech
his mumps," he said proudly. "Get
'way; you can't have 'em."
Ikey bad promptly stopped at the
gate.
"What'll you take, Billy, to lemme
get 'em?" he asked, his commercial
spirit at once aroused.
'What'll you gimme?" asked has of
the salable commodity, with an eye to
a bargain.
Ikey pulled out a piece of twine and
a blue glass bead from his pocket and
offered tue.ni to the child with iu
mumps. These received a contcm 1
jus rejection.
"You can do perzactly liko ;?*u
ploaae when you got the mumps," In?
sinuated Jimmy, who had seemingly
allied himself with Billy as a partner
in business; "grown folks bound to do
what little boys want 'em to when you
got the mumps."
Ikey increased bis bid by the stub
of a lead pencil, but It was not until no
had parted with his most cherished
pocket possessions that be was at last
allowed to place a gentle finger on the
protuberant cheek.
Two little girls with their baby-bug?
gies were seen approaching,
"G' 'way from here, Frances, you and
Una," howled Jimmy. "Don't you come
In hero; me and Billy's got the mumps
and you-all 'r' little girls and ought
n* to have 'em. Don't you come near
us; they 're ketchlng."
The two little girls Immediately
opened the gate, crossed the yard, and
stood in front of Billy. They Inspected
him with admiration; he bore their
critical survey with affected unconcern
and indifference, as befitted one who
had attained such prominence.
"Don't tech 'em," he commanded,
waving them off as he leaned grace?
fully against the fence.
"I teched 'em,' boasted the younger
boy. "What'll you all give us if we
'11 let you put your finger on 'em?"
"I ain't a-goin' to charge little girls
not hin' " said the gallant Billy, as he
proffered his swollen jowl to each in
turn.
A little darkey riding a big black
horse was galloping by; Jimmy hailed
and halted him.
"You better go fast," he shrieked.
"Me and Billy and Frances and Lina s
got the mumps and you ain't got no
business to have 'em 'cause you 're a
nigger, and you better take your horse
to the llb'ry stable 'cause he might
ketch 'em, too."
The negro boy dismounted and
hitched the horse to the fence. "I
gotter little tarrapim?" he began in?
sinuatingly.
And thus it came to pass that there
was an epidemic of mumps in the lit?
tle town of Covlngton, and William
Green Hill grew rich in marbles, in
tops, in strings, in toads, in chewing
gum, and in many other things which
comprise the pockot treasures of little
boys.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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desiring touchers' certificates, and
thoso teaching without valid certlfl
catee.
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Tax Returns for 1912.
Sumter, S. C, Dec. 11, 1911.?No?
tice Is hereby given that I will at?
tend in person or by deputy at the
following places on the days Indicat?
ed, respectively, for the purpose of
receiving returns of personal proper?
ty and poll taxes, for the fiscal year
commencing January 1st, 1912.
All males between the ages of 18
and 55 years, must make returns as
to whether or not they are liable for
road duty for year 1912.
Tindal, Tueeday, Jan. 2.
Privateer. Station, Wednesday,
January 3.
Manchester, Levi'a S:dir.g, Thura
d nyf January 4.
W'edr: field, Thomas' Store, Friday,
January 5.
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*.
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W. T. Brogdon's Store, Monday.
Jan. 15.
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Pleasant Grove, Wednesday, Jan.
17.
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Norwood, Cross Roads, Friday,
Jan. 19.
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meet at those appointments. All re?
turns must be made before Feb. 20.
1912.
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Auditor.
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